Education

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, Lucidity CEO Randall Bolten joined David Domzalski on Financial Bin Radio to talk about his new book, Painting with Numbers. Make sure to check out the review we did on the book here. About Randall and the book: Author Randall Bolten asserts that mastering the rules of presenting numbers is not so different … Read more

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, David Domzalski of the Financial Bin spoke with Mitchell Weiss, Author of Life Happens: A Practical Guide to Personal Finance from College Through Career and professor of Finance at Hartford University. Mitch, a former lender and financial CEO, has a unique perspective on the financial lives of young adults. Unlike … Read more

I went to school to become an accountant. I knew I loved money and budgeting. I loved planning and business. I did not love T-Accounts. I do not like long hours and I really hate busy season. I wish I would have known that. It would have made the years after college much better. It … Read more

On one particular Monday a few weeks, I got into my car and started my hour and a half drive into the city to my job. The first third of the drive is a pretty landscape of farm homes, horses, and rolling hills. During this part of the drive, I often think of how happy … Read more

On TV, they show all of the 18-year-olds packing up the car, going off to a beautifully-landscaped campus where they spend the next four years drinking, partying, changing majors, and experimenting with all sorts of things — to one day graduate with a ton of loans and very little clue about the real world. Is … Read more

In most of the cases it has been seen that getting higher education costs you your finances. That is, getting higher education is a costly affair and for that you need to take out student loans. Thus, mounting student debt is a common problem for most of the students and their families. Students, in order … Read more

I promise you that I am going to fight for you to get clean water. I promise you that I am going to fight for you to get electricity in every one of your homes. I promise you I am going to fight for your governments to build you roads so you can go to school. Which means … Read more

The trouble with public education is that it is free. Now before you say, no it’s not — I pay taxes — I want to stop you there. Public education is not failing in middle class or wealthy neighborhoods. It is failing in poor neighborhoods. Specifically, it fails in neighborhoods that are funded with Title … Read more

Dear Recent College Grad, How happy we are that you chose to go to college so many years ago? Even more so, we thank God that you chose a private college with those expensive living costs and high tuitions. It means so much to us that you carried us with you all the way through. … Read more